Syria Rebels Threaten Sectarian Revenge If Key City Falls

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) One person was killed and at least seven injured as Alawite and Sunni gunmen clashed in Tripoli in northern Lebanon on Sunday (May 19), the state-run National News Agency said. The Lebanese army deployed in the ...

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Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country.

Above the Syrian coastal town of Tartous, groups of Alawite men and boys were amassing at different landings along a road that winds higher and higher, away from the Mediterranean and into the hills. We saw them assembling as we traveled the same ...

The Syrian army today bombarded Sunni areas of Banias as heavy gunfire rocked the Alawite-majority port city, a watchdog said, raising fears of a new massacre.

Sectarian fighting in northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where an Alawite minority lives, raises death toll of conflict to nine. Lebanese soldiers patrol Tripoli following clashes Photo: REUTERS/Stringer TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Three people were killed ...

Rebels in Syria have seized control of four deserted Alawite villages in the central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. President Bashar Assad hails from the Alawite community, which is an offshoot of Shiite ...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped eight men from Syria's Alawite minority as they crossed into northern Lebanon on Monday, residents and security sources said, in a bid to gain the release of a Sunni Muslim man believed to be held by Syrian forces.

AMMAN (Reuters) - Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect will meet this weekend to support a democratic alternative to his rule and try to distance the community from wholesale association with the government's attempts to ...